Photos and Documents
(Detail) Photo of Narewka Wedding - 1918 - Courtesy of Batya Dashefsky
Szyfra (Shifra), nee Rubinstein, as a young girl, was identified by her son Phillip Schreibman in the 1918 photograph of a wedding in Narewka (see below). He wrote, "I believe I see in it my Mother as a little girl, as well as her sister, Pearl.... I ... asked [my sister] if she could see our Mother in it. She picked out the same little girl without my prompting. You can imagine my excitement because we have never had any photos of my Mother as a little girl. She is the little girl with the big white collar [at right in photo above], just to the left of the hat on the groom (the tallest man in white shirt and dark tuxedo jacket ...) in the centre. And to the left of my Mother, past two faces in between, in a dark dress and collar with white trim, stands her older sister, my Aunt Pearl." (2 March 2011)
Narewka Wedding
Courtesy of Batya Dashefsky
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Phillip Schreibman also recognized his mother Shyfra in the back row, second woman from the left (directly under the word "House")
in a photograph of members of the He-Chaluts ha-Tsa'ir youth movement branch in Narewka in 1930.
Other photographs can be viewed on the Narewka KehilaLinks page, Images of Narewka: Past & Present
Courtesy of The Ghetto Fighters' Museum, Israel/The Photo Archive
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Another photograph shows Shyfra and her mother Rywka with others.
Shyfra is standing third from the right; Rywka is seated just to Shyfra's right.
The Pass/ID of Rywka's father Benjamin Rubinstein from 1917, when Narewka was under German
Occupation during World War I, can be seen here.
Courtesy of Phillip Schreibman
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Phillip Schreibman has contributed the following 1935 certificate,
written in Polish in Narewka just before his mother emigrated to Canada.
